Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 57, Decatur, Adams County, 7 March 1964 — Page 1

VOL. LXII. NO. 57.

300 Civil Rights Demonstrators Held

By United Press International More than 300 civil rights demonstrators, most of them whites chose to go to jail today rather than obey police orders to quit blocking the exits of San Francisco’s SheratonPalace Hotel. The demonstration followed a breakdown in negotiations to end what the demonstrators called discriminatory hiring practices by the hotel. After 10 hours of protest, police told the demonstrators they could continue their “sitin” and "sleep in” tactics, but would be arrested if they insisted on blocking the exits. Leaders of the demonstration huddled briefly and decided to ignore the warning. As authorities stepped in to make arrests, the demonstrators fell limp and had to be carried to waiting police 'cars and patrol wagons. Friday night, more than 1,000 demonstrators had picketed the hotel, and around 2,000 spectators -watched and heckled them. There was no violence. The hotel had denied any discrimination in hiring and rejected a demand that a “proper number” of Negroes be employed. In New York City civil rights demonstrators sat down in police headquarters Friday and later blocked rush hour traffic at a key bridge leading. from Manhattan. Police arrested 13 of them and carried them away. The demonstrators were protesting alleged police brutality. The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court Friday to make Atlanta speed up its four-year-old stairstep school desegregation program. The state joined the city in all-out legal opposition to such a move. The Justice Department asked that all Atlanta schools be integrated by September, 1965. Elsewhere in the nation: Syracuse, N.Y. —Guards were posted at the two entrances to police headquarters to prevent demonstrators from entering. But two persons—one a girl — were arrested during a protest against alleged police brutality. Birmingham, Ala. — The Ala-

Says Russians Err On Cyprus

WASHINGTON (UPD—President Johnson, politely but firmly, has informed the Russians they are “seriously mistaken” about the situation in Cyprus and U.S. proposals to end civil strife op the island. The White House Friday released a letter Johnson sent to Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev is reply to the Russian leader’s Feb. 7 charge that an Allied plan to send NATO troops to Cyprus might endanger world peace. The troops would have been used to stop fighting betwen the Greek majority and Turk minority factions that started last December. . . Khrushchev’s letter said the Soviet Union “condemns’ plans for use of NATO troops and warned against “an armed invasion” of Cyprus. The letter and other Soviet moves since the Cypriot fighting flared, were considered as favoring the Greek Cypriot cause. Johnson bluntly told Khrushchev that “your message was

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. Albert N. Straley, Wood Chapel E.U.B. Church) “HUMBLE YOURSELVES” Scripture, I Peter 5:1-11 “Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time.” (Verse 6) - For the Lenten season, as well as all the other seasons of the Christian’S life, this is of prime importance. If the salvation which we possess has not saved us from pride, then it isn’t going to be very convincing to a world that is seeking salvation. , . Perhaps the fear of being humiliated is the most common "phobia” of man. “Saving face” is not alone the practice of the Oriental. It may be that God smiles indulgently at our frantic , efforts to avoid being humbled. He knows that we only get purselves into more trouble. His word assures us that “Pride goeth before a fall and a haughty spirit before destruction.” The cure for this anxiety is “hqmble ourselves . . . under the — mighty hand of God.” We have ample reason to be humble, knowing that it was our sins which nailed our Lord to the Cross. But the hopeful element is, this that in advising us to humble ourselves, the indication is that we will be able to do it. We are offered that much self-control. The sequel, “that He may in due time exalt you,” is of special interest. The nature of man seems to require exaltation. He knows it is his destiny. God promised it in the beginning, "Made man to have dominion of all the created world.” But we are in « this verse relieved of the responsibility of exalting ourselves. God will do it in His own good time, and in His own good way.

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bama Education Association plans to go ahead with a scheduled speech by author Quentin Reynolds despite objections from the citizens councils of Alabama that Reynolds holds “biased and irresponsible opinions” and is “anti-South.” Madison, Wis. — Alabama Gov. George Wallace filed Friday as a candidate in Wisconsin’s Democratic presidential primary election and challenged voters to “shake the eye teeth of both fnajor parties” by voting for him. Memphis, Tenn. — Memphis State students indicated by a nine-to-one margin Friday a favorable opinion about integrating the university’s athletic program, a student government leader said. State Traffic Toll Increased To 161 By United Press International Indiana's 1964 traffic toll qlimbed to at least 161 compared with 167 a year ago to day when the first highway victi mo fthe weekend was killed five miles east of Madison. Larry D. Sowers, 25, Madison, was crushed to death beneath his car. Police said he tried to pass another vehicle on Indiana 56 and lost* control. The car ran up an embankment, hit a tree, and rolled back across the road, pinning Sowers beneath it. Deimos Bollenbacher Files Candidacy Delmas (Mike) Bollenbacher, of route 2, Berne, has filed his declaration of candidacy for the Democratic nomination as county commissioner from the third district. The Jefferson township farmer is presently completing his first three-year term as third district county commissioner. Also, in latest candidate filings, two Democrats filed candidacies in the county clerk’s office for precinct committeemen. Charles R. Graves, route 1, Decatur, filed for West Root precinct committeeman, and Gail RUnyon, route 2, Geneva, filed for committeeman from South Hartford.

based on a seriously mistaken appreciation both of the situation in Cyrpus, and of the aims of the United States in agreeing to lend its assistance to improving that situation.” The United States had been cooperating with all governments concerned, Johnson said, “for one purpose alone, that of assisting the Cypriots to restore a peaceful situation in Cyprus.” Johnson’s letter dated March 4 was released after the Chief Executive met for 10 minutes with Cyprus Foreign Minister Sypros Kyßfianou. The meeting was described as a “courtesy call” by Kyprianou who had conferred earlier with Secretary of State Dean Rusk. , Kyprianou said he was pleased with the U.N, Security Council plan for a peace-keep-ing force and a mediator in the fighting between the two groups. He added that he was supporting completely the actions of U.N. Secretary General Thant.

Ask Judges To Drop Suits On Redistricting INDIANAPOLIS (UPD- Governor Welsh and the Indiana State Election Board Friday asked a three-judge panel to dismiss two reapportionment suits brought by the Indiana Civil Liberties Union and exState Sen. Nelson Grills. The motion to dismiss maintained that the 1921 law whose constitutionality was the subject of the two consolidated suits was repealed by a 1963 statute which the Indiana Supreme Court validated and the issue now is moot. The three judges—Roy Kiley of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, and William Steckler and Cale Holder of the Indianapolis district court—had handed down an interim ruling last year on the two consolidated suits. That ruling had the effect of giving the 1965 Legislature one more chance to produce an equitable reapportionment plan for the state before the federal courts acted Then, on Feb. 10, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled that Welsh waited too long to veto four bills, one of which was a reapportionment plan passed by the 1963 House and Senate. This new plan, which Welsh said was an improvement over the 1921 statute,- was ppt into effect by the Indiana State Election Board, of which Welsh is chairman. Asst. Atty; Gen. J. Van Brown, who filed the motion with the federal judges, attacked a supplemental complaint filed by the ICLU as “an attempt to revive a cause of action which is now moot. The 1921 statute, the constitutionality of which is the subject of the original complaint, has been repealed by the 1963 statute and the question presented in this cause is purely hypothetical." The supplemental complaint had called the federal court’s attention to the validation of the 1963 plan by the Indiana Supreme Court and had asked the federal judges to hold that this plan also was unconstitutional. Mrs. Hovarter Dies After Long Illness Mrs. Susie Hovarter, 87, of 2430 Gay street, Fort Wayne, died at 11:15 o’clock Friday morning at Parkview memorial hospital, where she had been a patient one month. She was born in Ohio Aug. 14, 1876, a daughter of Reinhart and •Rachel Martin-Limenstoll, and was married to John W. Hovarter April 18, 1900. Her husband preceded her in death Feb. 22, 1956. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Alvirda Aker of Fort Wayne; two sons, Ralph Hovarter of Decatur, and Floyd Hovarter of Fort Wayne ;nine grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren, and four sisters, Mrs. Rosie Limenstoll, of Magley, Mrs. Catherine Ehrsam of Decatur route 2, Mrs. Lena Sherlock and Mrs. Pearl Hoffman, both of Preble, Two daughters, three brothers and three sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at the Winteregg-Linn funeral home, with the Rev. Evan Bergwall, Jr., officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Dale cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today until time of the services.

Mrs. Thomas Wells Dies Last Evening Mrs. Musetta Wells. 88, formerly of Decatur and mother of Mrs. Clyde Butler, died at 6:35 p.m. Friday following a short illness. She was at the home of her other daughter, Mrs. Frank Render, Delphos, O. JMrs., Wells was born Sept. 14, 1875 in Rushmore, O. Her husband, Thomas Wells, preceded her in death in 1961. Her two daughters, two grandchildren, and eight great-grand-children. and one sister, Mrs. Sylvia Sherrick, of Convoy, survive. Mrs. Wells was a member of the First Methodist church of Decatur and the Pythian Sisters. Friends may call at the Harter & Son funeral home, Delphos, 0., aft°r noon Sunday. Services will be held at the Harter & Son memorial chapel, Delphos ,0., at 2 p.m. Mohday. The Rev.’ A. C. Underwood. Decatur Methodist pastor, will offi«ciate. Burial will follow in Mt. Calvary cemetery, Ft. Jennings, O.

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Heavy New Fighting Is Reported In Cyprus By Rival Cypriot Factions

Protest Park At Port Site

WASHINGTON (UPD — The Senate Parks subcommittee 'met in unusual week-end session today to conclude hearings on a bill to authorize an 11,732-acre Indiana dunes national park. The subcommittee must decide whether the southern tip of Lake Michigan, in the Chicago metropolitan area, can accommodate both the park and a deepwater port at Burns Ditch, Ind. The port committee, the plan commission, and the > town board of Portage submitted documents today protesting that the park would stifle the port. The committee contended that land in the Burns Ditch area should be left open to industry which, it was said, would provide the jobs badly needed to combat “chronic unemployment." “The working man of our area and of our nation needs a job, not another beach playground,” said H. J. Hansen, vice president of the board. The commission’s resolution held (that Indiana already- ? established a state park, and no national park is needed. The Gary Chamber of Commerce presented a statement of opposition to an 11,732-acre national park, but said it would consider any other proposal for a smaller area. Sponsors of the bill, notably Democratic Sens. . Paul H. Douglas, JU., and Birch Bayh, Ind., insist that both the park and the port are feasible. They are supported* by Interior Secretary Stewart Udall and Elmer B. Staats, deputy director of the Budget Bureau. Staats made an almost unprecedented personal appearance before the subcommittee to endorse the legislation. Members of the Save the Dunes Council from Indiana and Illinois, packing the hearing chamber to standing-room-only capacity during the three days of hearings, agreed. They charged that the only adamant opposition came from steel plants in the area, primarily Bethlehem. Bayh offered some specifc changes in the bill now pending, and these were enthusiastically and promptly endorsed by spokesmen for the Save the Dunes Council. Bayh said the recreational facilities of the park would actually boost the economy of the area. He suggested that the community of Beverly Shores and the Tremont area be included in the park. He also called for land to be relinquished from the Baileytown area, a tract located to the

2 •*! '•- •. ► I igßp* 'flnr . I i 4/a IWa < VYi \ * Ay EARLY SPRING — Enjoying Friday’s preview of spring, these five Decatur girls rode their bicycle? out to Saddle Lake.to look over the swimming prospects. They are, from left to right, Becky Pageler, Diane Sheets, Vickie Feasel, Ann Schnepf, and Sally Christian.—(Photo by Cole)

south of the Bethlehem Steel property where the Gary-Hobart pumping plant is stationed. Bayh said the' National Park Service could provide all or part of road maintenance, police and fire protection, and other community services to areas which would lose taxable land to the park. He said taxable area will be cut by 60 per cent under the plan and would force communities to face extreme cutbacks in municipal services or a large increase in the per capita tax load. Bayh said help could be extended to school districts to compensate partially for federal installations which remove taxable property from the rolls. He said there was already an established precedent for such aid. Bayh asked the committee to “provide generously for the possibility that many landowners will want to sell to the Park Service immediately.” Mrs. Wm. Hirschy Is Taken By Death Mrs. Agnes Hirschy, wife of William Hirschy of Berne route 2, died Friday ynoming at a Richmond hospital following an illness of two years. She was bom in Czechoslovakia but had lived in this country for many years. She was married to William Hirschy June 6, 1928. Mrs. Hirschy was a member of the Catholic church. Surviving in addition to her husba n d are one brother, Joseph Spack of Czechoslovakia, and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held at 9:15 a.m. Monday at St. Mary’s Catholic church, with the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Simeon Schmitt officiating. Burial will be in the MRE cemetery at Berne. The body was removed to the Winter-egg-Linn funeral home, where friends may call after 7 p.m. today until time of the services. Indiana's Senators Split On Farm Bill WASHINGTON (UPD — Indiana’s two Democratic U. S. senators split ranks Friday a sthe Senate passed and sent to the House by a 53-35 vote the administration’s wheat-cotton bill. Birch Bayh voted for the meausre while Vance Hartke wa sone of 14 Democrats who voted against it.

NICOSIA, Cyprus (UPD— Heavy new fighting broke out today between Greek and Turkish Cypriots in the western port city of Paphos. At least three persons were reported killed on the island. The dead were Turkish Cypriots —one killed in the Paphos outbreak and two others killed in violence elsehwere in Cyprus. British security forces officially announced the new outbreak of fighting at Paphos, 50 miles southwest of Nicosia. The announcement said the battle included the use of bazookas, but it was not known immediately which side used these weapons. The new outbreak of violence came as- Greek Cypriots announced the release of 49 Turkish Cypriots hostages, including one woman. There was no immediate sign that Turkish Cypriots were releasing Greek Cypriot hostages they hold. Turkish Cypriot Vice President Fazil Kuchuk had stated that if President Archbishop Makarios of the Greek Cypriot majority was able to have his compatriots release Turk is h prisoners, the Turkish community would follow suit. Makarios ordered the Greek Cypriots to release their hostages by noon today, or face “strict punishment.’ The conciliatory attitude of Makarios and Kuchuk came against a background of continued bitterness and fighting by their followers. Before today’s new outbreak of violence, fierce fighting had been reported at a number of places. Three persons —two Turks and one Greek—were reported killed in this earlier conflict. Since the renewed bloodshed started at Christmas time, more than 200 persons have been killed in the communal strife. ■Die Turks say the Greeks are holding 207 Turkish prisoners, and the Greeks say the Turks are holding 34 Greek hostages. Four other Greeks have been reported missing. “If Makarios legal forces release the 207 Turkish Cypriots, or those of them who were not murdered, the Turkish Cypriot community won’t object to releasing the few Greek Cypriots they have been holding,” Kuchuk said. Earlier, Makarios ordered the island’s Greeks to release their Turkish hostages by noon today and to turn them over to Red Cross workers at Nicosia police headquarters. Failure to comply, the president said, “will involve strict punishment.” INDIANA WEATHER Fair and colder tonight. Sunday partly cloudy and cold north, schattered showers Low tonight 15 to 20 north 30 to 40s south. High Sunday mid 30s north, in the 50s south. Outlook for Monday: Cloudy with rain or snow likely and colder.

Attorneys Seek To Show Ruby Insane

DALLAS (UPD—Jack Ruby’s attorneys were hopeful today that psychiatric testimony would indicate that the strip tease joint operator acted with insane impulse when he killed Lee* Harvey Oswald. A veteran police officer cast a specter of doubt on the impulse contention Friday when he testified that Ruby told him that for two days he had considered the avenger role because he “wanted the world to know that Jews do have guts.” The Ruby trial was rattled Friday by a jail break with inmates shouting threats within feet of the courtroom. The defense’s first witness, a pregnant striptease dancer, nearly faintest during the corridor commotion. The state rested its case Friday with testimony by Police Sgt. Patrick T. Dean who said that Ruby told him 10 minutes after his arrest that he “noticed the sarcastic sneer on Oswald’s face two nights prior . . . that’s when he first thought he would kill him . . . .” Melvin Belli, the chief defense lawyer, then addressed the eight-man, four-woman jury in Ruby’s murder trial—telling them in his opening statement that he was going to prove Ruby was insane when he shot Oswald Nov. 24. Calls First Witness He spoke from 3:27 to, 3:35 p.m., and ended up by saying he was going to call as his first witness Karen Lynn (Li*le Lynn) Bennett because she was pregnant —“two days overdue, ~andTl am alraSl we may lose her if we do not put her on right away.” “Little Lynn” is 19, a bigeyed strawberry blonde who 'formerly was a striptease artist

High Court Rules Out Gates Ditch

The “enlarged” Gates ditch in Monroe township has been thrown out by action of the Indiana supreme court, it was learned this morning. The original petition for the 2-mile-long Gates ditch was filed in 1957, established in 1959, and completed on August 26, 1960. Charles H. Henly, of Bluffton, was the engineer. It was reported complete and approved by the engineer. Later, when a judge protem, Lewis L. Smith, was on the bench, a second report was filed, and ordered docketed, that called for an enlargement of the ditch program. New Ditch Report The new Gates ditch work would cost $45,000, would involve most of the original petitioners, would be times as long as the original 2-mile ditch, and also envolved the following ditches in Monroe township: HabeggerSprunger ditch,. Sprunger ditch, upper and lower Kern ditches, Wagley-Sprunger ditch, and both east and west branches of the Smith-Schumacher ditch. A group who opposed the new ditch petition hired C. H. Muselman, Berne, to represent them, and to keep the court from approving the enlarged project. Muselman Represents Muselman, representing the appellants, Ernest Amstutz, E. Anealine Amstutz, Howard K. and Veter Teeter, Frederick W. and Mary B. Schaadt, filed a motion against appellees Rufus and Nora Huser, Virgil J. and Viola G. Haines, and Melvin D. and Anna Meyers, to strike out, dismiss and recheck; the ditch motion. Representing the other side were attorneys D. Burdette* Custer and Robert G. Smith, of De-

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at Ruby’s Carousel strip joint. Even as Belli spoke, she was wilted in a near-faint on * flight of steps about 35 feet from the courtroom. That was because—also about the time Belli began speaking—the seven prisoners from the sixth-floor jail above the secondfloor courtrom escaped. They came down the same elevator used by Ruby and his guards every day. Three were still at large Saturday. They got off at the second floor about the time Little Lynn, Mrs. Belli, and Deputy Sheriff Rosemary Allen came out of the ladies room. Five of the escapees then apparently just walked down the front flight ot steps to the first floor, past a line of people waiting to get into the trial, and out the doer to freedom. Two of them decided to turn the other way from the elevator exit, which is about 35 feet from a door to the anteroom leading to the Ruby courtroom. Either Mrs. Allen recognized them, or heard the alarm bell —for she shoved Mrs. Belli and Little Lynn into a stairway alcove. “They’re after me! They’re after me!” screamed Little Lynn. One Convict Nibbed “Get ’em! Get ’em!” yelled Mrs. Allen, pursuing one of the men who had gone down a backstairs. Up the stairs came CBS man Leon Davis. He grabbed and held the man until police came. The other, a young fellow named Charles David Gregory, (Continued on Page 3) . NOON EDITION

catur, who moved to request a change of venue from the judge, and Judge Lloyd S. Hartzler, of Fort Wayne, was named. Judge Hartaler Rules Judge Hartzler ruled in April, 1962, dismissing the remonstrance as not according to law, but upholding the motion to dismiss. Custer & Smith then filed an appeal to the supreme court, and following submission of briefs, the two sides presented oral arguments before the supreme court Feb. 4, 1964. Assisting Muselman was Robert F. Parrish, of 1 Fort Wayne, formerly of Dei catur, and assisting Custer & Smith was J. Tony Bruggeman, of Fort Wayne. Supreme Court Upholds Muselman received word today that his side had been upheld, , and that the motion to strike out, dismiss and recheck was upheld by the supreme court This was the second case that Muselman has won on appeal to the supreme court he stated, the first being the Wabash-Monroe township line case a few years ago. Muselman explained that his petitioners were not against cleaning the ditches, but that they did not desire to see huge rivers made out of the ordinary ditches necessary to carry the surface water from the farms and towns in the area. “It is our opinion that the trial court was correct in refusing to hear the second report and in refusing to continue the drainage proceedings after -its judgment establishing same and after there had been filed a report showing that construction had been completed in accordance with the first report,*' the supreme court said in its decision*